Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford rants at internet randoms (again), insists we should ‘root for’ the Borderlands 4 team or ‘we’ll all pay the price’, then whips around and says ‘I love criticism’

Randy Pitchford, CEO of Gearbox software and prolific poster, has once again taken to social media to get into metaphorical fistfights with the developer’s critics over Borderlands. In case you’re unfamiliar, Pitchford has a bit of a habit of this—like when the Borderlands movie bombed horrendously, or when he compared his team to The Beatles.

The battle he’s picked this time is over a public muting of a one X user MitsuShow late last month, wherein he declared: “Sorry. Don’t need this energy right now as the team and I bust our ass to make BL4 the best Borderlands game yet. I’m going to block you in a day or so after you’ve had a chance to see this. Nothing against you or your opinion. Just shouldn’t expose myself to this now. Sorry.”